Motivational Quotes

Action

It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions and words that announces your inner state.

- Ching Ning Chu

Best Quotes about Action

You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

Aikman, Leo

Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.

Landon, Michael

The only way you can bring in the harvest in the fall is to plant in the spring, and to water, weed, fertilize in the summer

A well begun is half ended.

Plato

I will act as if what I do makes a difference.

James, William

To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.

Pauling, Linus

10.

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do.

Carnegie, Andrew

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The best way to get something done is to begin.

12.

Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

Mother Teresa

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The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike you, do not wait until he has struck before you crush him.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.

Hutcheson, Francis

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To talk goodness is not good... only to do it is.

Proverb, Chinese

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No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Carlyle, Thomas

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My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.

Kelland, Clarence Buddinton

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Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.

Hansen, Mark Victor

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A gold medal is a wonderful thing, but if you're not enough without the medal, you'll never be enough with it.

Movie, Cool Runnings

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Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

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Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.

Curcio, Joan L.

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Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.

Fichte, Johann G.

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A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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Existence was given us for action. Our worth is determined by the good deed we do, rather than by the fine emotions we feel,

Magnin, Edgar F.

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No rules for success will work if you don't.

28.

So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.

Stone, W. Clement

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Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

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I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

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Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

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Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

34.

Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

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No sooner said than done -- so acts your man of worth.

Ennius, Quintus

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Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.

Ross, Percy

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I will act now. I will act now. I will act now. Henceforth, I will repeat these words each hour, each day, everyday, until the words become as much a habit as my breathing, and the action which follows becomes as instinctive as the blinking of my eyelids. With these words I can condition my mind to perform every action necessary for my success. I will act now. I will repeat these words again and again and again. I will walk where failures fear to walk. I will work when failures seek rest. I will act now for now is all I have. Tomorrow is the day reserved for the labor of the lazy. I am not lazy. Tomorrow is the day when the failure will succeed. I am not a failure. I will act now. Success will not wait. If I delay, success will become wed to another and lost to me forever. This is the time. This is the place. I am the person.

Mandino, Og

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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

Aristotle

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The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

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Let your actions always speak for you, but be forever on guard against the terrible traps of false pride and conceit that can halt your progress. The next time you are tempted to boast, just place your fist in a full pail of water, and when you remove it, the hole remaining will give you a correct measure of your importance.

Mandino, Og

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Keep your head and your heart going in the right direction and you will not have to worry about your feet.

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The link between ideas and action is rarely direct. There is almost always an intermediate step in which the idea is overcome. De Tocqueville points out that it is at times when passions start to govern human affairs that ideas are most obviously translated into political action. The translation of ideas into action is usually in the hands of people least likely to follow rational motives. Hence, it is that action is often the nemesis of ideas, and sometimes of the men who formulate them. One of the marks of the truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action the ability to pass directly from thought to action.

Hoffer, Eric

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Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating.

Dyer, Wayne

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An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.

Howells, William Dean

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The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

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In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.